Etymology

thine

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Today it means: Second-person singular prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy). Full definition →

Middle English thyn ← Old English þīn ← Proto-West Germanic *þīn
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*þīnaz
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*þīn
  3. Old English · inherited fromþīn
  4. Middle English · inherited fromthyn
  5. English todaythine

From Middle English thyn, þyn, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz. Cognate to German dein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian din, Faroese tín and Icelandic þinn.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishþīn all →

thy

Proto-West Germanic*þīn all →

thy

Proto-Germanic*þīnaz all →

thy

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